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Alma polis religio / Axe poli cum artica / Tenor / Contratenor

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'These performances reach an unrivalled level of excellence … and show just how marvellous medieval music can be' (BBC Record Review)'The beauty of this once-so-remote music is all immaculately tuned and articulated: what else do you expect from Gothic Voices? … I hope those wh ...» More

O propitious order set like a constellation in the heavens,
powerful with the light that comes from the teaching
of the Augustinian brothers!
These famous celibates,
twenty altogether, are singers
and the most proficient, expert musicians.

Here I assemble and proclaim the most accomplished
and the most instructed in music
beneath a musical structure that is lucid throughout.
From among these, this piece discerns in its measure
Pierre of St Denis in advance of all others.
There are more [Augustinian brothers] who flourish, because

John Forester
and Nicholas Beauchamp
are most learned in the theory of music.
O the song of John of Stree,
of Augustine of Florence
and of John of St Didier!

Little Mucius, Theobald
and Taxine of Paris
are drinkers at the well of Orpheus,
and [so too are] Hydrolanus
and Cyprian the singer,
William Cavalerius,

Gerard of Cologne
with Clement of Berry,
also Peter Amatori;
Jerome of Paris surpasses [in singing]
the tenor with Gratrus
and Walter de Gardino.

O how great was the melody,
and sweeter harmony
and chanting in their song
and melody in this chant:
A solis ortus cardine
Et usque terre limitem.